romaní

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

Inherited from Latin rosmarīnus. Compare Occitan romanin.

romaní m (plural romanins)

1. rosemary

   Synonym: (dialectal) romer

• romaní bord
• romaní mascle

romaní m or f (masculine and feminine plural romanís or (Valencian) romanins)

1. Romani (pertaining to the Roma people or to the Romani languages)

   Synonym: gitano

romaní m or f by sense (plural romanís or (Valencian) romanins)

1. Roma (a member of the Roma people)

   Synonym: gitano

romaní m (uncountable)

1. Romani (a family of Indo-Aryan languages used by the Roma people of Europe)

   Synonym: gitano

   Hyponym: caló

• The term romaní (“Romany, Roma”) is of recent coinage in Catalan, reflecting the endonym of the Roma. The older exonym, gitano (“Gypsy”), is still popular.
• The IEC and AVL disagree over the proper plural of romaní. The AVL has chosen to prescribe the regular plural romanins as if the term had a Latin derivation, while the IEC has chosen to prescribe the plural form romanís.

• “romaní” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “romaní” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

romaní m or f (masculine and feminine plural romanís or romaníes)

1. Romani

romaní m or f by sense (plural romanís or romaníes)

1. Romani

romaní m (uncountable)

1. Romani (language)

• “romaní”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10